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UWorld, LLC

Business Analyst

Hyderabad , India
full-time

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Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, manage product backlogs, and drive user acceptance testing for innovative e-learning solutions.

UWorld is a worldwide leader in online test prep for college entrance, undergraduate, graduate, and professional licensing exams throughout the United States. Since 2003, over 2 million students have trusted us to help them prepare for high-stakes examinations.

We are seeking a Business Analyst who excels in gathering, analyzing and communicating business requirements for assigned product development, product maintenance, and support activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with business stakeholders directly or product owners to gather and understand requirements, analyze requirements, & manage scope creeps.
  • Break user and business requirements into functional requirements, specifying appropriate level of detail.
  • Engage in the requirements verification process, ensuring requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, and verifiable.
  • Assist in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
  • Assist product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog of user stories.
  • Play an active role in refining & grooming user stories.
  • Work with the product owner, UX designers, SMEs, & external stakeholders to develop wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to assist in the discovery and gathering of detailed requirements.
  • Work independently (or with the product owner) in writing the functional and non-functional stories for the development teams.
  • Work with the product owners, SMEs, and other stakeholders to test value, interface designs, and feedback from new releases.
  • Assist product owner in overseeing the actual development of the product, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint support.
  • Assist technical team in understanding the business requirements with help of stories and prototypes.
  • Be present in daily scrum and retrospective meetings, apart from required presence in sprint review meeting.
  • In the absence of product owner, play the role of proxy owner with end-to-end responsibilities.
  • Participate in facilitating, documenting, and supporting user acceptance testing.
  • Facilitate effective discussions and meetings between development teams, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Degree in computer science or related field
  • 4-6 years of experience working as a Business Analyst on enterprise-level software products/applications.
  • Experience in functional testing, and user acceptance test planning for large enterprise systems.
  • Experience gathering data as well as summarizing and presenting relevant information to internal and external customers, both online and in person.
  • Proficient in formulating business metrics for reporting.
  • Exposure to digital front ends and API’s environments.
  • A passion for delivering customer-centric products/services, be able to understand pain-points of the customers and shape the Product backlog to address those points.
  • Strong knowledge of story management tools such as JIRA, Team Foundation Server (TFS) etc.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.


Soft Skills

  • Proficient written and verbal communication skills (email, phone, etc.)
  • Excellent analytical, communication and research skills.
  • Excellent attention to detail and organization skills and ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely.
  • Ability to work effectively within a changing environment that is going through high growth.
  • Exceptional follow-through, personal drive, and ability to understand direction and feedback.
UWorld, LLC

PassionAt UWorld, we are deeply passionate about teaching and excelling on the high-stakes exams. Back in 2000, while preparing for our own high-stakes exams, we realized that there was a significant gap between what was taught and what was tested. We founded UWorld then with the sole principle of creating only the finest quality preparation products to fill that gap. To accomplish this, we brought together a team of exceptional medical and nursing experts who share the same passion.TrustAt UWorld, we specialize in creating practice questions for high-stakes exams. That’s all we do! Because of this narrow focus, we have mastered the art of teaching and preparing students to overcome the ever-changing challenges of exams. We ensure that every course is comprehensive, evidence-based, and offers a single-point resource. In addition to providing expert preparation for challenging tests, we teach highly effective, clinically useful content that improves patient care. Our questions are deemed by many students to be the essential component in their high performance, and because of their performance, we believe we have contributed to the mass uplifting of exam standards. VisionPreparing for a licensing exam is one of the most significant and stressful times in a student's life. Through our personal experience, we understand the enormity of this challenge and feel that it is our obligation to provide the best practice questions to help people excel. With so many students using our products, we believe it is both a privilege and a serious responsibility to create only those products that will make a difference. As our company grows, we remain committed to developing preparatory products of the highest standards from only the most passionate and gifted educators. Click Here for more information about how you can contribute to UWorld's excellence.

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